Topic: Antminer D3 Blissz firmware (10/12 v1.12 update) - page 2. (Read 125923 times)

ACtually they're different

D3 BM1760
A3 BM1720

Why were you such an asshole and then you go and retract it all and say fuck it? Did you just want to prove you could be a monster and get him to give in, and then once you saw you won you said fuck it?? Wow...
You know, he's helped us out a sure hell of a bunch more then you have.

Bitmain has just released the new antminer A3 with Blake2b algo for Siacoin.... It has the same chip as the D3, which tells me there is no reason why we can't change algos on our D3's. Please look into this and report back.

Dblissz,

I do appreciate your work on the firmware.  However for the advancement of the software development, I would really appreciate you could release the source code so that others could stand on your shoulder and improve upon it.  You can still have donation addr posted, for those who would like to donation you a flat fee.

Thanks

Blissz,
 
  I second the suggestion of using a flat fee, I really have no issue either way, but I would think that way probably makes the greatest number of people happy and it compensates you for your work and keeps the project going....

Just my 2 cents.

The orig. Firmware from Bitmain?

Ho yes please go on this S9 too ^^

I think that once a day shift is far better than small jumps. let it be once say same time everyday for 15mint. then you keep mining or whenever the miner starts first mine for dev fee and use the same time everyday.

I would like to see the code too but will still use the binary version from you.
I just do not have time and proper knowledge how to build by myself.
But i think you should supply version with 24 hours 15 minutes dev pool as i suggested before.
Thanks for your efforts and i would be happy to see the code.

blissz,
   I would recommend you release the source with your dev fee included but as an optional percentage.  This would allow people with multiple miners to set a dev fee percentage on one miner to handle the dev fees for the other miners so they wouldn't need to switch pools.  You may even find some people setting a percentage higher than 1.5%.

Also, a flat fee for a "prebuilt" version would be nice, or maybe just donations and hope most people aren't over greedy.  

As a developer myself, I'm really interested to look through the changes you made.  If you release the code to the wild I would most likely build a dev fee free version to use myself, but I would be happy to donate a one time fee for your help.  

Hopefully you will find that there are more people that appreciate your work and are willing to donate a one time or percentage fee than those that are just looking to leech off your work...

ok..not an issue...my stuff is running fine and making little money anyway..thus if a flat fee may have

got it for the tax write off in bulk this year ..what the heck as a month to month drip etc...and my

miners running fine on bitmain firmware..no incentive..or I should say less incentive to experiment

on the other hand with crypto tanking perhaps I don't need to worry about a 50% tax rate any more

and deductions (40% fed and 10% state) .....

anyway, thanks for the info..was where I was coming from on the question ..sitting on the fence getting this

firmware or not

brad

Flat fee was never an option.

I'm willing to pay a flat fee? is that still an option? (or not or never has been?)

I see things are kinda in flux here..just asking

if anyone has time to get me up to speed

brad

You know what, fuck it, Blissz do what you want man. I'm not going to bother you or mess with your project or your code. I just wanted to help you and contribute to the project but I re-read my posts and I've been a monster. I'm sorry for that. Do whatever you feel like. I'm not going to do anything.

I'd also like to state, that I HATE Bitmain and I do not want to help them in anyway. Rather than close source things though I think it'd really be good to find a way to work together (keeping bitmain out of the loop is not possible as an individual but is as a community). I know I'm not the only person on here who knows how this stuff works. Maybe we could work together to fight some of these wrongs but we can't do that in a closed community and that my friend is why the GPL exist. Not just for cgminer but for Linux, for software. It's about pushing the world forward, even if we are just little ant's.

Thanks Blissz, I will hold off releasing the dev free version and let you figure out what you want to do. I want to state again for the record I 100% support you and your dev fee. I think your hard work and improvements are worth paying for, but for the progress of crypto letting others stand on your shoulders (clearly you are a giant ) is a must for our progress (from a code prospective). I wish you all the best. Sincerely

Hi All,

I wasn't aware of the GPL license, so I did some investigation last days. After reading the GPL licenses I can conclude that stangerm2 is right. So that means I do have to provide the modified sources as most of the current modifications are now build on top of a linked module in cgminer.

There are some consequences in releasing the source though:

- As far as I know, Bitmain is free to use these improvements in their current and their new products they will sell. I do hope they compensate these free goodies with a multi algorithm D3 firmware one day
- There will probably appear modified firmware binaries which can cause damaging your miners if the maker doesn't know what he's doing...
- I had plans to buy a S9 as there are a lot of requests and make a modified S9 version, but I might consider not to jump on that boat for now. (let's first see what will happen with the D3)

Legit alternatives instead of releasing the sourcecode

- I stop this project and take the binaries offline. I don't like this option, as the whole idea is to help improve the situations for the D3 owners.
- Temporary I take the binaries offline and I will write something from scratch / not linked to the sources of cgminer. This will take away the consequences, but a lot of time and effort (at least a month or two) will be put into something that will probably not lead to any improvements for you guys.

My proposal

- Although these consequences I will release source of a stable version (non BETA) that allow others to investigate the voltage / fan mods / fault check improvements I did. (devfee related code will be removed from the source). This allow others to look into the changes I did to make a binary for themselves without devfee.
BETA functionality will be left out of the source right now since it's not yet stable and will create dangerous situations when used in a wrong way. I might have to restrict the use of a BETA versions to a closed group instead of providing a public link to the BETA versions.

Happy mining

Ciao Blissz

5 days - I sent you the de-compiled code with the patch so you know it works.

Now it's 1 minute and 50 seconds each two hours mining on the devfee pools. It's actually switching between your pools / devfee pool. Have a look at  the kernel logging after some hours and you can see in detail what happened

You're not alone having this issue in the latest beta. I will investigate this